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From providers and patients developing treatment plans to governments creating policies affecting the lives of millions, society depends on evidence from scientific research that is rigorous, credible and valid to make informed decisions. In partnership with researchers, policymakers and other key stakeholders, the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) is reimagining science for the 21st century with the goal of strengthening the research enterprise to improve the quality of scientific studies in biomedicine and beyond. More About Us

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  • How to Reward Scientists for Doing Research that Matters

    Earlier this year METRICS brought together scientific thought leaders to Washington, D.C. to discuss how scientists are rewarded for their work. Here we report on some key themes from the workshop.

  • Registration Now Open: Eighth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication

    The Congress will be held September 10-12, 2017, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the evidence base on which scientists can improve the conduct, reporting, and dissemination of scientific research.

  • A Manifesto for Reproducible Science

    A call for the adoption of measures to improve key elements of the scientific process: methods, reporting and dissemination, reproducibility, evaluation and incentives.

  • What Makes Science True?

    From NOVA, a 15-minute video on the reproducibility crisis and reports on the outcome of five experiments designed to test the reproducibility of cancer biology studies.

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  • A Maturing Meta-Science Was On Show In Washington, DC

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    Meta-Research is coming of age. This is the energizing insight that I brought home from Washington, DC, where I had joined the recent Sackler Colloquium held at the National Academy of Sciences. Organized by David B. Allison, Richard Shiffrin and Victoria Stodden, and generously supported by the Laura and John Arnold foundation and others, the colloquium brought together experts from all over the academic and geographic world, to discuss “Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies”.

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  • Fostering reproducibility in industry-academia research

    B. R. Jasny, N. Wigginton, M. McNutt, T. Bubela, S. Buck, R. Cook-Deegan, T. Gardner, B. Hanson, C. Hustad, V. Kiermer, D. Lazer, A. Lupia, A. Manrai, L. McConnell, K. Noonan, E. Phimister, B. Simon, K. Strandburg, Z. Summers, D. Watts Reproducibility

    Source Info:

    • Journal Title: Science
    • Publication Date: 2017
    • Issue #: 6353
    • Page #: 759 - 761

    DOI: 10.1126/science.aan4906

Research Areas

METRICS Research Focal Areas

  • Methods

    Doing Research: study design, methods, statistics, research synthesis, collaboration ethics

  • Reporting

    Communicating Research: reporting standards, study registration, disclosing conflicts of interest, information to patients, public and policy-makers

  • Evaluation

    Correcting Research: pre-publication peer review, post-publication peer review, other means of detecting and correcting errors

  • Reproducibility

    Verifying Research: sharing data and methods, repeatability, replicability, reproducibility, self-correction

  • Incentives

    Rewarding Research: criteria, rewards and penalties in research evaluation for individuals, teams and institutions

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